Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 17:32:27 +0200 From: Leif Neland <leif@roskihs.roskildebc.dk> To: xp7@inetnow.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Many Users Message-ID: <3.0.1.16.19970827173227.370f33a8@roskihs.roskildebc.dk> In-Reply-To: <34046BE8.52B3@inetnow.net>
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At 11.03 27-08-1997 -0700, Bill Harrison wrote: >Does anyone know the maxumum number of user accounts that can be >enterred into the passwd file. Could it handle up to 70,000 logon names >and passwords. > >There would never be more than 100 users logged on at a time. > I very much believe 65534 is the highest uid-number. You will also run into troubles with i-nodes for home-dirs and files. I donīt know a reasonable number for users, perhaps 5000 or so? One ISP uses adresses as xxx@post1.tele.dk, yyy@post4.tele.dk; I donīt know how many users they have. But it shouldnīt be a problem having an enormous alias-file on the main mailserver, so everybody has an email-adress as user@provider.dom, and the main server then knew on which server the user lived.
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